Minnesota husband who killed his wife, mom and seven-year-old daughter in a murder suicide used a screwdriver to carry out the massacre, it has been revealed

Nathan Brown, 41, murdered his wife Kristen Ann Brown, 41, and their daughter Evie at their family-run children’s daycare at their home Hopkins, Minnesota on Wednesday

He is believed to have first killed his 78-year-old mother, Alice Anne Brown, at her home in Burnsville before continuing the bloodbath at his wife’s daycare, Brown Bear Childcare, which was run out of the couple’s basement

Nathan Brown fatally stabbed Kristen and their daughter with a screwdriver, committing the murders in front of at least six traumatized children – police

Police said a man dropping his children off at the daycare at around 9am reported he could hear screaming as he approached the building

The witness said he went inside and saw Nathan on top of his wife, and said it ‘initially looked like Nathan was giving Kristen CPR’ – he then noted Nathan had a screwdriver in his hand and was actively stabbing Kristen

After killing his family, Brown then shot himself

Nathan Brown, 41, brutally murdered his own mother, his wife and daughter in a killing spree before taking his own life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound 

A Minnesota husband who killed his wife, mom and seven-year-old daughter in a murder suicide used a screwdriver as the murder weapon on his victims, then rounded up the massacre of his family with a gunshot, it has been revealed. 
Children’s day care owner Kristen Brown, 41, reportedly, planned to leave husband when he killed her, their only child and his own mother on Wednesday August 12. 
Nathan Brown a 44-year-old Nathan, a landscaper with his own business in the Minneapolis area it is believed, first killed his mother, Alice Anne Brown, 78, at her home in Burnsville before continuing the bloodbath at his wife’s daycare, Brown Bear Childcare, which Kristen ran out of the couple’s basement. 
Brown fatally stabbed Kristen and their daughter with a screwdriver, in front of at least six traumatized children, police said. 
None of the other children inside the Brown Bear daycare in Burnsville were evacuated safely and without injury after the murder-suicide.

Kristen Ann Brown, [photo], and her daughter Evie were fatally stabbed with a screwdriver in a horror murder-suicide in Hopkins, Minnesota, on Wednesday. The assailant police say was her husband Nathan Brown. Kristen reportedly was planning to leave Nathan

Nathan Brown is believed kicked off his killing spree on August 12, by first killing his mother, Alice Anne Brown, [photo], at her home in Burnsville where he had been living, before continuing his attack on his wife and child

Police said a parent dropping his children off at the daycare around 9am reported hear screaming as he approached the building.
The witness said he went inside and saw Nathan on top of his wife, and said it ‘initially looked like Nathan was giving Kristen CPR’, he told police. 
‘He then noted Nathan had a screwdriver in his hand and was actively stabbing Kristen,’ the affidavit said. 
After committing the brutal triple murders, Brown then took his own life with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. 
The man who witnessed Brown stabbing his wife to death said at least six children watched on inside the daycare, before he hurried them outside and he called 911. None of the other children were harmed.  
By the time police arrived, Brown’s wife and daughter were found dead together inside the home. The alleged assailant was found nearby, deceased from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot injury. 
Brown, a landscaper with his own business in the Minneapolis area, is believed to have committed the heinous murder-suicide due to the breakdown of his marriage. 

A significant police presence was seen outside the daycare in Hopkins, Minnesota after the family massacre on Wednesday 

Shortly before the killings, owner/operator Kristen Brown [photo], sent a letter to parents of her daycare students informing them she would be closing the business, citing ‘relationship issues’ with her husband, the owner of the home where the business is located  

Shortly before the killings, Kristen sent a letter to parents of her daycare telling them she would be closing the business, citing
‘relationship issues’ with her husband. 
A friend of Kristen who had a child in her daycare, it has been reported, claimed that something seemed ‘off’ in the family with potential ongoing abuse.
Kristen sent a text to the friend around 8.45am on Wednesday, explaining that ‘things were crazy’ and adding that Brown Bear Childcare would be closed as of August 27.
Kristen told that friend she was planning on leaving her husband imminently. The home belonged to Nathan, so she could not continue running the daycare out of their basement. 
The couple were estranged and Nathan had been living in his mother Alice’s home. It is believed that he first murdered his mother before moving on to his wife’s daycare.

Kristen Brown told her friends and clients she realized ‘early on’ that she loved working with children and watching them grow. Becoming a mother herself in 2019, she was convinced that the time was right to focus on childcare. She then opened Brown Bear Childcare from their home

Kristen Brown who frequently posted lovingly about her own daughter.told her friends and clients that she realized ‘early on’ that she loved working with children and watching them grow.
She began babysitting when she was 10, which she did every weekend until she was 14. She also worked in her mother’s family childcare center when she turned 12.
After becoming a mother herself in 2019, Kristen became convinced that the time was right to focus on childcare. She then opened Brown Bear Childcare from their home.
Kristen who is from South Dakota noted that she had her own ‘home daycare’ in South Dakota, but that she had been working as a certified optometric vision therapist in the four years before starting the Brown Bear daycare.
‘In October 2018, I had my own child,’ Kristen wrote. ‘As much as I loved my previous positions, I believe that it is time to return to child care so that I can be home with her.’
Her involvement in children’s development expanded to helping to raise money for children’s hospitals